Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with harpist-organist-author Parker Ramsay, author of the feature article We Mean Business in the March-April 2018 issue of...
—by Dr. Cathy Clayton, student of Dr. McLaughlin, and Kelly Marie Harris, daughter of Carrol McLaughlin In Dr. Carrol McLaughlin’s family, there was a tradition that everyone was to choose an instrument at the age of 4, and she chose the harp. Carrol grew up in...
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with 30-Day-Practice-Challege-taker Rachel Lee Hall, who wrote the article Resolutions and Rota in the March-April 2018 issue...
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with author and wedding harpist Kristen Elizabeth Hoyos about her feature article Off Season Training in our January-February...
Check out the March-Arpil 2018 issue of Harp Column, featuring Addi & Jacq! Subscribe now to download this issue or read online. [blog type="alt" heading="March-April 2018" cats="march-april-2018" posts="-1" heading_type="block" /]
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with Student Scenarios columnist Anne Sullivan about teaching music theory. Plus Anne shares her experiences as a competitor...
Harp Technician Steve Moss creates String Bag online app for harpists and talks 3D printing possibilities for harps Harp Column readers probably know Steve Moss best as a harp technician, often featured in magazine articles and Ask the Experts columns. Turns out Moss'...
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with Russian harpist Sasha Boldachev, featured in Harp Column's March-April 2017 issue. Sasha talks about his winter 2018 U.S....
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with Angelica Hairston, founder of the advocacy program Challenge the Stats, and author of Artist and Advocate in our...
Check out the January-February 2018 issue of Harp Column, featuring Florence Sitruk! Subscribe now to download this issue or read online. [blog type="alt" heading="January-February 2018" cats="january-february-2018" posts="-1" heading_type="block" /]
You may or may not have noticed, but we’re a little obsessed with Instagram at Harp Column central. We try to post a lot (follow us @harpcolumn), and we try to share your great harp posts too. (Want to get noticed? Hashtag #practicalharpist.) Naturally, the harp...
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with Alison Young, our non-harpist CD Review Editor and MPR classical music radio host. Alison tells us how she got started...
Back by popular demand, it’s Harp Column’s 30 Day Practice Challenge 2018 edition—plan, practice, perform! The focus is the same, but with a new, fun twist. This year, you’ll start the challenge by picking a focus piece, and plan your goal of an end-of-challenge...
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode we're mixing things up with a holiday listening party. Hear your favorite Harp Column Music Artists Rhett Barnwell, Christa Grix, Stephanie...
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with Marguerite Lynn Williams, author of "Trial by Fire Music," in our November-December 2017 issue. Lynn tells what it's like...
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with Sam Hickman, author of the feature story Busk a Move in our November-December 2017 issue. Sam tells how and why she takes...
The new Harp Column is out, featuring Mexican harp virtuoso Baltazar Juárez. We caught up with Baltazar just days before devastating earthquakes struck his country. Baltazar later assured us that plans are still underway for the Mexico International Harp Competition...
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with Catherine Litaker, author of the Sounding Board article Cuban Crossing in our September-October 2017 issue. Catherine...
Chen-Yu Huang has been appointed Principal Harpist with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra. The audition was held in early September and required three rounds before the panel selected Huang. She will begin her tenure with the AASO performing Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo and...
Welcome to Harp Column Podcasts, where we go behind the stories in Harp Column with your host Kristina Finch. In this episode, Kristina chats with Kela Walton, author of Teacher's Pet in our September-October 2017 issue. Kela talks about how she researched this...
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